A workshop or factory in India where spinning wheels are used or where textile work is performed.
From Hindi चरखाना (charkhana), combining charkha (spinning wheel) with the Persian suffix -ana meaning 'place' or 'workshop,' creating 'a place of spinning wheels.'
Charkhanas were the high-tech factories of the medieval Indian economy, where skilled workers produced some of the finest textiles in the world that were traded across continents!
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